Make your own hats
Gene Allen Martin
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Description
Make Your Own Hats is a millinery manual by Gene Allen Martin. Houghton Mifflin published it in 1921, with drawings by E. E. Martin. Martin directed domestic arts at the Minneapolis Y.W.C.A. She also designed and taught hat-making for many students.
The first chapters cover equipment, materials, and velvet-covered frames. Frames of neteen, crinoline, and wire each get full treatment. Later lessons turn to shaping, trimming, and finishing hats at home. The book assumes a home sewer with patience and taste. It preserves the craft behind the grand hats of 1921. Modern makers still learn from such clear, careful manuals.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Gene Allen Martin |
|---|---|
| COLLECTION | BOOKS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 116 KB |
| LICENSE | PUBLIC_DOMAIN |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | Project Gutenberg |